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Glenn ChandlerI've mentioned my enthusiasm for the writing of Glenn Chandler many times on this blog over the years. I first came across him as the...
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See How They Run - 2022 filmSee How They Run is an enjoyable homage to Agatha Christie. The film opens at a celebratory party marking the 100th performance...
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Forgotten Book - The Long DivorceThe Long Divorce (also known in the US as a A Noose for Her ) is another of the novels by Edmund Crispin that have recently...
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Frailty - 2001 film reviewFrailty is not an especially well-known film, but it seems to have developed an increasing reputation since its original release in...
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The Winter Lake - 2021 film reviewLooking for a cheerful pick-me-up to take your mind off seasonal miseries? Then you'd do well to avoid The Winter Lake , a recent...
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And Then There Were None - 1974 film reviewI enjoy many Golden Age detective novels, but if you press me for it (as happened on one of the panels at San Diego a few days ago), my...
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Forgotten Book - The Far Side of the DollarI've mentioned my enthusiasm for Ross Macdonald's work several times over the years and recently - while on a flight to San Diego - I read...
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A Magical Time in San DiegoI'm just back from a magical Bouchercon in San Diego. On the way back, while awaiting my flight, I heard one of my...
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The Black Angel - 1946 film reviewIt must be a good thirty years since I read Cornell Woolrich's The Black Angel , but I've only just caught up with the film noir based on...
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The Mercy - 2017 film reviewThe Mercy is a film which tells the story of Donald Crowhurst, which caused quite a sensation back in the late 60s. It's a story I...
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Forgotten Book - Message from SiriusMessage from Sirius by Cecil Jenkins was the joint winner (with R.J. White's The Smartest Grave ) of a competition organised by...
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An Affair in Mind aka The Face of Trespass - 1988I recall reading Ruth Rendell's The Face of Trespass one rainy weekend back in the 1980s. It was one of the first books of hers that I...
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Rachel Savernake in China and JapanIt's a surreal yet fascinating experience to see a novel that one has written published in a language that one doesn't understand....
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Forgotten Book - The SchoolmasterW.J. Burley published The Schoolmaster in 1977. By that time he was a well-established crime writer. Having started out with an amateur...
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The October List by Jeffery Deaver - reviewI've become increasingly interested in reverse chronology as a method of storytelling - so much so that these past few days I've been...
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Still Writing Under My Own Name - marking the 3 million milestoneA while ago, I've only just discovered, this blog passed 3 million pageviews and is now at around 3.2 million. So it's only right that I...
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Forgotten Book - The Bassington MurderCharlotte Hough's The Bassington Murder , published in Britain and the US in 1980, is a curiosity. It's the only crime novel of an author...
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Let Him Go - 2020 film reviewLet Him Go is an uneven but very watchable film starring Kevin Costner and Diane Lane as grandparents desperate to restore contact...
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Forgotten Book - Frequent HearsesNext week sees the publication of a attractively presented new edition of Edmund Crispin's Frequent Hearses . The publishers are...
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Back from CroatiaI'm back home after a highly enjoyable trip to sunny Croatia. This was my third trip to the country - although my very first visit to...
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Francis Durbridge Presents: BreakawayFrancis Durbridge has always been popular in Germany and I've recently enjoyed a DVD entitled Wer ist Mr Hogarth? which thankfully,...
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Forgotten Book - The Massingham AffairI've talked before about my admiration for the crime writing of Edward Grierson. He only published a handful of novels in the genre,...
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Rellik - Britbox reviewRellik was first screened back in 2017 but I've only just caught up with it, thanks to Britbox. This is a six-part series written...
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Under Suspicion - 1991 film reviewThere's more than one film called Under Suspicion , and the 1991 movie was unknown to me before it cropped up on Talking Pictures TV. The...
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Forgotten Book - A Shot in the ArmI met John Sherwood just once, as far as I can recall, at a CWA conference about thirty years ago. He must have been about eighty then,...
